Early United States
Shallow Waters
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This epic incorporates the Yoruba sea goddess Yemaya (also known as the Mother of Fishes and Mother of Africa), with the Middle Passage ...Read Review
Madeleine: Last French Casquette Bride in New Orleans
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Madeleine Boucher is a young woman of humble birth who journeys to Louisiana in the New World. As she leaves behind France and ...Read Review
Libertie: A Novel
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On the surface, Libertie is a coming-of-age novel. Libertie Sampson, free-born, dark Black daughter of the much lighter and more self-assured Dr. Catherine ...Read Review
Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas (A Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure)
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It is 1834, and a 47-year-old Captain Putnam—in the fourth instalment of the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventures—travels homeward from the Caribbean on ...Read Review
Mr. Beethoven
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“What?” I asked myself. “Who? When? Where? Boston. USA? Beethoven? A new oratorio?” Relax! Try running those familiar facts on new lines. And ...Read Review
Concord
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In Concord, his first novel, Zancanella (English, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of New Mexico) imagines the early adult lives of New England’s most ...Read Review
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
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This eye-opening look at the world of U.S. newspapers and the anti-slavery movement in the decades before the Civil War is an ...Read Review
A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
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From its enticing cover to the turn of the last page, this novel is engrossing. Alongside other historical women way ahead of their ...Read Review
The Lincoln Moon
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In 1857, young Truman “Scrump” Armstrong is living a contented existence on his family’s Illinois farm. His parents, Jack and Hannah, are willing ...Read Review
Beyond the Rio Gila
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Tired of being beaten by his father, 17-year-old Moses Cole leaves his farm in the fall of 1844 and walks 18 days to Carlisle, Pennsylvania ...Read Review
